Saving CO2 as an essential task for the future

What is becoming increasingly important in private environments has been an undeniable issue for the industry: The efficient and responsible use of resources while reducing CO2 emissions is the key task of our generation.

This topic has also a high weight for us at Heck & Becker. In recent years, our family-owned company has invested in increasing efficiency and resource conservation in all energy-intensive areas. One major component was the newly installed melting and heat-retaining furnace for our Diecasting Technology Center at the end of 2019. It provides molten aluminium for the production of die-cast parts and has saved 347 tons of CO2 annually since then.

Furthermore, investments were already made in 2015 in an efficient supply of compressed air for all areas of the company, which at the same time makes the waste heat from the compression process usable for production. This eliminated leaks, reduced air requirements and ultimately saved electricity and CO2 emissions to a considerable extent. Since then, a total of more than 1,500 tons of CO2 have been saved!

But that is by no means the end of the story: At the beginning of this year, the air compressor and heat recovery module were replaced by a smarter and more efficient model to further increase efficiency.